Originally Posted by
thijsseh
No, miles upgrades are one of the few things you can do directly on a ‘third party’ booking (at least in my experience).
Most of the 777’s have 8 F seats (I don’t think they fly the new frames with 6 ‘game changer’ seats to MAA, but I could be wrong. It’s not entirely unusual to have empty F suites so you may be pleasantly surprised.
I'm going to assume MAA is similar in loads to HYD, where F demand is usually quite low. I am usually the only passenger or 1 of 2 people booked in F for flights to/from HYD. The cabin usually does end up going out full with op-ups though.